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Minnesota suspected assassin Vance Boelter captured alive after intense manhunt for fatal shooting of Dem pol, spouse: report

Checkerboard Strangler said:
So no political alignment detected. Good.

1. Top one is wifey's handicap equipped "van-borghini", 2017 Pacifica.
2. Bottom: 1966 Sport Fury, 383 Commando 4bbl, all original survivor, pampered by its former owner, an old man who had receipts for everything down
to tire valves.
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Nice! I thought it did not look exactly like a Satellite... but I was close 'cept I think that is a ballsier car. Cool on the old dude and his maintenance! I wish I was 10% that disciplined!

Pacificas are quite nice! I have a soft spot for minivans. And I bet they are great for handicap mods. The Honda Odyssey might be my pick...

I honestly do not know how to judge someones politics based on their car unless it is SUPER obvious... ie:
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I mean just a MAGA sticker or the COEXIST thing are enough... But most cars are not that obvious. ;)
 
Deuce said:
Spraypaint a Tesla and our government will call you a terrorist. Murder Democratic elected officials, crickets.
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Weird definition of crickets... the whole country is talking about it. And too bad that guy is not in TX where he would get the needle. He's going down hard... no doubt.
 
Lethargic Aptitude said:
To fool idiots into believing it was a liberal. So that you guys attack democrats.
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To people like that, all of this is just more reality tee vee, a game.
Their minds can't grasp that these are real people.
We have our very own collection of Sen. Mike Lees right here on DP.
 
@Checkerboard Strangler Dont want to rehash what I think was a post the got deleted(?)... but I am SO sympathetic to a great Engine, design, drive chain with ONE STUPID FLAW. My Diesel Colorado has a VM Motori A428 powerplant and that thing is a work of ART! But the exhaust system. Oh great oogly moogle. It's booby trapped beyond reason. Anyway... nice to talk about something other than the usual lol..
 
cAPSLOCK said:
@Checkerboard Strangler Dont want to rehash what I think was a post the got deleted(?)... but I am SO sympathetic to a great Engine, design, drive chain with ONE STUPID FLAW. My Diesel Colorado has a VM Motori A428 powerplant and that thing is a work of ART! But the exhaust system. Oh great oogly moogle. It's booby trapped beyond reason. Anyway... nice to talk about something other than the usual lol..
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If someone starts a car thread I'll talk about it there.
 
Lethargic Aptitude said:
To fool idiots into believing it was a liberal. So that you guys attack democrats.
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Do you think he took a job on the board appointment from Tim Walz, to facilitate immigration of Africans to Minnesota and find them employment, housing and healthcare, so that in several years he could pretend to be a liberal?
 
trixare4kids said:
As usual, some are jumping the shark. No federal charges yet.

If the nutbar is eventually charged by the federal government, it would seem very improbable that any president, especially President Trump, would pardon an assassin.
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Do you somehow not know that he pardoned the Jan 6th terrorists who tried to kill/capture members of congress?
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Ordinary Republicans are now mostly politically homeless if they are typical principled conservatives from a few years back.
MAGA has largely reshaped the Republican Party into the MAGA Nationalist Party so it seems.
I am not going to fault "ALL Republicans" for being MAGA loyalists but we see and hear it with our own eyes and ears who the loyalists are.

And as for the ordinary principled connies who are still hanging on, I see them as the same kinds of people who are still hanging on with the establishment Dems
who still want to believe that all of this is just going to blow over soon, like the Chuck Schumers and Nancy Pelosis who think "strongly worded letters" will somehow get through to Trump and sting his conscience and make him rethink his attacks.

Those establishment Dems are delusional and so are the ordinary conservatives who have yet to leave the MAGA Party.
Like their establishment Dem counterparts, they seem to think MAGA is just a passing trend.

Both sides should take a long and honest hard look at the growing number of independents who have decided to quit membership in both parties.
The indies are BY FAR the largest block of the electorate in America now and have been for at least the last six years, and now their numbers are swelling again.

"Leaving MAGA" is the growing trend now.
We might just see it begin to grow more legs soon.

PS: I'll repeat what I've said many times before: Nobody expects a former MAGA to suddenly pivot to being a Dem or any kind of liberal.
If they do, goody goody but personally, if you're a conservative, BE a conservative, fine and dandy, I sure don't agree but I don't hold any grudges against connies,
I just try to argue my views to them in the hope for some common ground between us if any.

But to me, leaving MAGA means that a person recognizes that MAGA is NOT conservative in any way, shape or form, and is not healthy for a constitutional republic's survival.
Leaving MAGA means they see the signs of impending dictatorship. See my sig line for an example! 🤯
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Democrats read toooo…much into the MAGA narrative. Trumps only going to be President only for 8 years and we move on to the next Presidential candidates…and so on and so on.
 
cpwill said:
This particular story is absolutely about a right wing dude who apparently decided F Democracy, and started murdering he believed were his "enemies". He may be surprised to learn that the Lord had a few things to say both about murder and vengeance.

And the next time a left wing dude decides to gun down a Jewish couple, or set a holocaust survivor on fire, or kill a health insurance executive, should right wing posters on this board use that to claim that the violence comes exclusively from the left, then they deserve to be reminded of this guy. If they want to claim that left wing media or political leaders are responsible the next time a Bernie bro decides to shoot up a Republican softball practice or set fire to a Jewish politicians' house with the family inside, then they deserve to be asked how much culpability right wing media has for this guy.

Because only the sides can ultimately police their extremes in a way that will lead to deescalation... but they can't do that if they insist their extremes don't exist, or aren't a problem.
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The problem is that the action of consuming the conversation with your deflection to both sides is an excuse that defends the terrorism, that spares the right the psychological work of taking responsibility for breeding a terrorist.

They need to do that ****ing work, @cpwill , badly.
 
justoneman said:
You were in the voting booth with him?
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A long-time, close friend that he lived with has reported this. It's been all over the news - and in this thread.

So....the would-be mass murderer voted for trump 7 months ago and has a hit list that includes Democratic officials/politicians but no Republicans.

Yeah, he's MAGA.
 
Pyrite said:
A long-time, close friend that he lived with has reported this. It's been all over the news - and in this thread.

So....the would-be mass murderer voted for trump 7 months ago and has a hit list that includes Democratic officials/politicians but no Republicans.

Yeah, he's MAGA.
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Yeah I watched the whole video of his friend. That guy was acting very odd.

You do not know how he voted at all.
 
justoneman said:
Yeah I watched the whole video of his friend. That guy was acting very odd.

You do not know how he voted at all.
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I personally don't know, but his long-time close friend and housemate does.

The killer voted for trump 7 months ago.

The killer's hit list targeted Democratic politicians but no Republican politicos.

He's MAGA.
 
Pyrite said:
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In legal terms, trump is off the hook. However, many people understand that when the leader of one of the two major political parties in this country engages in regular denunciation and demonization of groups of people, that person has not only coarsened society as a whole but has also encouraged at least some of his followers to take matters in their own hands re rectifying matters.
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Oh, let's count how many times Trump supporters, Republicans, or conservatives in general are called Nazis, then we can wait to hear you handwave away how it's "different."
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Oh, let's count how many times Trump supporters, Republicans, or conservatives in general are called Nazis, then we can wait to hear you handwave away how it's "different."
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"Nazi" indicates behavior, which includes hating minorities.

Behavior can be changed. The color of one's skin can't. That's the difference.
 
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